lunes, 23 de mayo de 2022

Kung Fu Mantis: All bluff!

Slang is vocabulary of an informal register, common in spoken conversation but avoided in formal writing. "Bluff" belongs to such register and it can be used both as a verb or a noun. 

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"To bluff" means to deceive someone by making them think either that you are going to do something when you really have no intention of doing it, or that you have knowledge that you do not really have, or that you are someone else, or like the mantis, that you're more formidable than you look. Here you have some examples:
Is he going to jump or is he only bluffing?
Tony seems to know a lot about music, but sometimes I think he's only bluffing.
She bluffed the doorman into thinking that she was a reporter.

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